Leapmotor Says SUV Prices Will Drop to $7K; Rivian Makes Big R2 Improvements - Autoline Daily 4075

Backwards, regressive thinking GOP.

Q2 Tesla Excuses: Interim CFO dumps shares! Current licensees of TeleTaxi: Zero point zero! 13.2.9 FSD now at 21 miles per city disengagement!

Leapmotor exec is on some incredibly powerful drugs. He is clueless. No, SUVs are not going down to $7k. Not a chance.

Rivian hiring Tesla engineers…the surface mount inductors and through hole AlEl capacitors are spaced too close together.

don't for get to add ALL SCOUTS will be sold at VW dealers.

Big Obese Bill keeps the US auto industry in the dark ages, driving up domestic prices and giving up all global competitiveness. This will not end well. IRA invested $billions in future tech jobs, now that's dead.

Trump - deemed the worst President in U.S. history - continues his tariff-idiocy despite objections from all but the most faithful & most foolish. Why did America elect such an abomination?

DANA continues to go in the "wrong direction." Year after year they become incrementally smaller & smaller.

Ford reduces prices and sales go up...who knew!

We in Europe need the Maverick not the Rangers 😡

Have to call a spade a spade trump is destroying this economy from stock market losses high inflation due to tariffs and just the uncertainty not to mention mass layoffs and loss amongst farmers due to our exports being turned away. It isn’t going to work as China is now buying soy and cotton from Brazil and other sources we are sending our rare earth materials to China for refinement and China simply moving factories to other southeast countries to avoid the tariffs. Putin basically tricked trump he is still advancing to the point that Poland is setting up an anti tank wall. Everything he is doing is backfiring. Trump has said he would stop illegal immigration maybe that’s all he has done but at what cost?

Funny, China inflation is low, was NEGATIVE the past 4 months. Meanwhile, US deliberate deficit-driven inflation will remain high for the foreseeable future, creating permanent consumer price increases. The tariff tax just magnifies the effect, working Americans will continue to suffer. Reshoring is desirable, but only works if the government keeps devaluing the dollar, destroying purchasing power. Hyperinflation in slow motion.

When you say, "Most of Marelli's debt is getting eliminated," that means that the companies that extended them credit won't get paid.

Are the intrepid ads intentionally super creepy?

Leap motor is right if a car is like laptop then prices should fall and in the future cars will become more and more like that of buying a laptop. Ifs the worse things for cities though if everyone has a car due to the low price .

Great news to get the government out of the producer and the buyers business.

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Marelli: "Bankruptcy is awesome!". Bet they get nice "executive retention bonuses" to keep the same incompetents employed.

Is the Scott truck coming out first? I'm hoping the SUV does since there isn't many like it. Also, the range extender could follow months later. The Bronco EV isn't coming anytime soon, no announcement of a mini Hummer EV, that's my 2 cent on that matter. I've read that Stellantis is partnering with a battery swapping technology for their clown car Fiat 500e, they should be doing that for their other vehicles, I also think Toyota should do the same thing since their EVs isn't pushing innovation. Remember a subscription base battery swapping system could work, especially for cab type service, and other delivery companies.

GOP: Haha, we killed fuel efficiency regulations! Now automakers can sell giant gas guzzlers again! Also, we killed EV subsidies, so surely EVs will just go away now.
Also GOP: Haha, we're supporting a trade war that's causing national average gas prices to hit $4/gal. Also, two gas refineries are closing in CA, so prices there will spike to over $7/gal. Eat it Commifornia!
Also also GOP: Wait.. why is CA, the largest auto market in the US, still buying EVs instead of overpriced, gas guzzling ICE trucks and propping up our Detroit corporate donors?
Toyota: Hybrids are way better than BEVs.
Also Toyota: Pay no attention to how we're using parts from Chinese EV companies in order to make BEVs for sale in China. Our BEVs are still totally gonna rule.. some day.

That Ford phev ranger is a Chinese-made rebadge. That's why it will never be sold in the US.

Pretty excited about R2

Even if CAFE is gutted, I don’t expect a quick change from automakers. I think they know at this point as quickly as this changes. It could change back again in 2028.

How many generations have grown-up with no experience with an ICE. Short sighted by old men.

In five years, it will be completely obvious how far advanced China’s automotive industry has become. And the rest of the world will see the disappearance of most of their manufacturing capabilities (especially the US).

Marelli, a major supplier for Nissan is filing for Chapter 11. Which is exactly where Nissan is heading. That's what happens when you delay your electrification efforts and refuse to improve your one single product for a decade and a half. It's what happened a century ago with many major horse carriage manufacturers, it's what will happen this time around.

The estimated 26-mile range for the PHEV Ranger is a bust. More often, drivers use these trucks as regular commuter cars, and the EV range will be important.

The yellow accents on Rivians are horrendous

Leapmotors has a point about new tech. One is Super Wood, while not quite as good as carbon fiber, it cost a whole lot less and can be formed, molded and cast. Battery cells are forecast to go down to as low as $10 per KWh and be much lighter.

Big Oil's lobbying pays off. They want us dependent on their oil using inefficient cars.

Meanwhile Trump is spending $45-90 Million on his birthday parade tomorrow.
2/3 of the cost is to fix the streets after the tanks damage them.

Good bye and good riddance to the XM; that thing was hideous and totally pointless when there’s already an X5M in the lineup. On the other hand, it’s too bad the PHEV Ranger isn’t being sold here… I would have bought one of those. Don’t get how it’s only outputting 275hp though… the 2.3 EcoBoost makes 270hp on its own?

The EV range of the new Ranger should be at least 45 miles not 26.

Boycott USA Car Brands as they are all ugly obsolete rip of lemons

Where is that highway footage from?

If CAFE standards are relaxed that should be a substantial cut in the carbon credit market. Tesla will be the big loser in that one.

Can’t wait for 2026 for Dems can repeal the big beautiful Bill

I just unsubscribed.. trumps big tax and spend bill? I guess you really are a bunch of lefties.. good luck in your endeavors.. f - EVs go ice. And I mean both abbreviations.

just reminder everyone today is June 12, 2025 and this was supposed to be the "glorious debut" of the Tesla Robotaxi service in Austin. however in a move that should SHOCK NO ONE, Elon of course has missed YET ANOTHER one of his many "due dates" and citing "safety" as an excuse (which some of us in the Auto Industry know he really doesn't care about) has now pushed the debut back by 10 days to June 22, 2025. 👈therein like the cool kids say "watch this space".

$7000 for a car - sure they will. Why only would believe that are as dumb as those that thought they could claim it. I hope I am still alive in 20 years when I am 90 so a can ask …where are those $7,000 cars?

Tell Ford we don't want the Ranger PHEV in Australia. We've already got the BYD Shark 6. It's way better and way cheaper.

26 MILES OF RANGE IS A WASTE OF A HYBRID SYSTEM ' IF YOU CAN'T TRAVEL AT LEAST 100 MILES ON BATTERY ONLY THAN WHATS THE POINT PLUS ITS JUST MORE GARBAGE TO GIVE OUT AT A HIGH COST TO REPAIR THE SYSTEM WHEN IT QUITS ' AND IT WILL . WAY TOO MUCH ELECTRONICS . JUNK AT A PREMIUM PRICE . I WILL BE DRIVING MY RELIABLE ICE CAR FOR A LONG TIME YET TIL THESE INSANE PRICES COME DOWN BIGTIME . WE ARE NOT ALL SENATORS AND GOVENORS WITH MILLIONS .

I guessing you meant to say the XM would have an Inline 6 and not a V6....I mean has BMW ever sold a car with a V6 engine?

Tax deductible loan interest? Incentivizing consumer debt seems like an unwise economic policy. Did we learn nothing from 2008?

Your hard left leaning makes your reporting mostly biased opinion with a little actual news sprinkled in, shame.

I think they should drop the car interest deductions. There is no reason to subsidize car buying in general. Fire bmw's ceo.